Old Peking — Restaurant in Jersey City

After 3 years of saying we'd go to Old Peking. Threatening it as if it's a food poisoning case waiting to happen, we finally went. And for 3 years and living in the area I can say I wasted my money on other places that cost way more.

Here's the thing. Dumplings are their own thing. Usually dumplings are paper-thin. There's are super thick. Just how they do it. Maybe you love them. Maybe not. The insides are good but I wasn't a fan of the dough. Not a knock on them, they did everything perfect I just don't love it.

However. Egg rolls. Orange chicken. Rice. All that other stuff we got. It's an incredible meal, it's enough to eat for 2 or so days. I'm so happy to have finally went (friend told me that despite moving to the city, he still comes back just for Old Peking. That was the final push)

It's a hole in the wall place thats clean, nice and sells food that should cost four times as much.

Try it. It's wonder. And thats coming from a person who's eaten at places that are world famous and popping up throughout Chicago and...

Unfortunately, we had a disappointing experience.

We ordered pick up and once we were home, we couldn't go back to return the food.

We ordered chicken Broccoli with fried rice, pork lo mein with fried rice (combinations) , and beef with green beans. The chicken had a weird appearance (it looked more like salmon) but we thought to give it a try. Both the chicken Broccoli and the pork lo mein tasted like fish sauce which made us having to throw away the chicken and most of the rice. The pork lo mein was still edible.

The beef with green beans was decent. The egg rolls were good.

We will certainly...

We were craving dumplings and hence picked this restaurant. We ordered the steamed vegetable dumplings, eggplant with garlic sauce and white rice, and a dinner combo - ma po tofu that comes with vegetable fried rice and egg roll. Overall, the service was prompt and friendly and the portion size for the food was great! The taste of the dumplings was slightly disappointing (very thick outer layer, almost tasted like a bao) and even though the other two dishes were tasty, they were quite oily and filled us up too quickly! The food is great value for money but not sure if we will...